Comments on: HowTo: Use high-quality watermarks in your images with Aperture 2.1

By: Matthias

Matthias — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:31:39 +0000

Nate, sure. Just select all the images you want to export and use File > Export > Versions. From there you can access the export presets where you already should have set up a preset with a watermark.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:00:18 +0000

This was great! IS there a way in Aperture to batch export a folder of files with the watermark to save time? Meaning do many images at once.

By: Soam

Soam — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:40:12 +0000

Hi..
Im new to Aperture..
I did what you said and used the PSD which you gave.

Also, selected AUTO SCALE, but when I exported a 3280×2400 picture, the watermark is only halfway and other half is blank.

Does that mean, AUTO SCALE dint work or im doing something wrong?

Also, I not a designer and I would like to see some showcase of famous watermark styles to copy one and make on photoshop.
Can you provide some examples buddy or some resources link ?

By: Sven

Sven — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:42:44 +0000

Is this Biggi from Hamburg ?

By: zaaba

zaaba — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:35:54 +0000

Very useful. Thanks!

By: marcel valette

marcel valette — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:10:05 +0000

Congratulations for this great tutorial !
is it possible to watermark as many pics as you want at once automatically instead of one by one manually? there is a watermark for pc that does it I believe,but is not compatible for mac.

By: Birgit Leistmann-Walsh

Birgit Leistmann-Walsh — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:51:16 +0000

Hi there,
thanks for the great tutorial. I have a trial version of CS4 and were able to follow your steps, but when I then add it in Aperture during Export, the watermark is much much smaller even though I used the same image to create it in Photoshop. I just can’t figure out what’s happening. Can anybody help me out…? Pretty please
Danke, Birgit

By: MattSepeta

MattSepeta — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:52:36 +0000

Thanks for this helpful info. I was wondering if aperture had this ability, and now I know. Off to create a watermark and prevent I.P. theft!!!

Thanks again.

PS. I absolutely love this website. It is beautiful and the layout is fantastic!

By: nelson

nelson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:26:39 +0000

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By: Oscar Rojas

Oscar Rojas — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:58:16 +0000

You are my savior! Thanks =) Your blog is gorgeous keep it up.

By: krema

krema — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:22:25 +0000

Hi Oscar, Aperture should store all your used watermark images in your user folder’s Library > Application Support > Aperture > WatermarkImages

By: Oscar Rojas

Oscar Rojas — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:16:30 +0000

I have a big problem… I lost the original watermark files, do you know where Aperture stores them? I have search in the Aperture.app with no luck…

By: Helen Coats

Helen Coats — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:40:29 +0000

Is Photoshop the only application for creating a watermark to use in Aperture?

By: frixhias

frixhias — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:09:18 +0000

Thank you! this help me a lot.

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:39:14 +0000

Thank you for the watermark help. I have one question. How do I make it “more subtle” like your example? When I go by your steps I end up getting a semi transparent cloudy box at the bottom of my pictures.
Thanks

By: krema

krema — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:12:09 +0000

Hi Danilo, what exactly do you mean with the “Overlay step”. You mean inside Aperture? Choose from the menubar Aperture > Presets > Image Export and define the overlay image there. Or did you mean setting the layer mode to overlay in Photoshop?

By: Danilo

Danilo — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:42:52 +0000

Mate,

This was very useful for me. Appreciate your big help.

The only thing I did not understand very well is the “Overlay” step. Where do I have to go exactly for that?

Cheers!
Danilo

By: krema

krema — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:15:43 +0000

David, glad it works for you in the end although this black-where-transparency-should-be-stuff sounds like a bug. Maybe you should consider filing a bug report to Apple.

Hi Bohol, well there’s still the Aperture Manual with a paragraph about the watermarking feature which became better and better during the various Aperture updates.

By: Bohol

Bohol — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:10:09 +0000

Thanks for your tutorial. I tried looking up watermark in Aperture itself but got nowhere. Googgling it got your site immediately. Thanks a lot. I still have to do the watermark though

By: david sinclair

david sinclair — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:51:25 +0000

Hi, thanks for your input. I have sorted the issue today by simply not merging and not rastorizing the image and saving as a copy. seems to work fine. Just 2 transparent layers type on the second and save to desktop.. Select in aperture preff and away ya go. Can it be that simple

If help to any others don’t think its a screen calibration thing and it seems to work on all files imported on Aperture 1 and my upgrade to 2 Tried turning off raw fine tuning but had the same problem with files loaded before and since update. Must be something to do with creating it. by the way if I opened all my attempts in preview they all come out as black squares even the last one that works.

Cheers, will I am sure make a point of keeping up with your site. David